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Cities top 10

Real-world or fictional, utopian or chaotic, we offer 10 noteworthy locations
  • Sunrise to High-Rise

    The 10 best city books of 2014

    From Ferguson to Accra, by way of ingenious new maps of London and a plea to flee cities altogether, here are some of 2014’s best books about all things urban

  • Deewaar

    From Bollywood to Hollywood, what are the top 10 films set in Mumbai?

    The leading Indian film critic Anupama Chopra reveals her 10 favourite Mumbai/Bombay-based films here - but which of your own favourites has she missed out? Let us know!
  • Sweet dispenser machine in Berlin

    The top 10 boring city objects – your pictures

    They’re dull and they’re in a city near you: it’s the most fascinating mundane urban objects – as chosen by our readers
  • Manhattan

    The top 10 … cities on film

    From Michael Mann’s de-romanticised LA in Heat to Nic Roeg’s mysterious Venice in Don’t Look Now, these films tease out cities’ nuances and cast them as characters in their own right
  • The Roosevelt Island tram, New York City.

    Crazy commutes: 10 of the weirdest forms of urban transport – in pictures

    As La Paz in Bolivia prepares to open the world's largest urban cable car, here's a guide to other unusual modes of inner-city transport - from outdoor escalators to terrifying toboggan rides
  • Siege of Frankfurt 1552, Conrad Faber von Kreuznach

    Ten city maps from history – in pictures

    From London's cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, we bring you the work of history's finest cartographers

  • Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott.

    Top 10 future cities in film

    In our urban future bright or bleak? Peter Bradshaw provides a selection of celluloid cities you might consider moving to - or avoiding - if you're looking to relocate any time in the next 200 years.
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